Bridge Of My Dreams: A Slider - a photo on Flickriver

            This photo started out as a mistake, when I was unable to hold my camera perfectly still long enough for what ended up being a long exposure (1.6 seconds.) But I couldn't bring myself to delete it, because I kind of like its ghostly, dreamlike quality, its squiggly snake-like lights. its shadows.

This bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge, is not exceptional architecturally, but it has been part of my dreams since I was a young child, growing up in Queens, NYC. It is the easternmost East River Crossing, and the first bridge that anyone on Long Island can access to get off the island and onto the mainland U.S. It was the bridge we crossed to go to the Bronx Zoo, or on our annual, week-long, summer vacations upstate to the country. It is the bridge I had nightmares about crossing, too, after I read a Reader's Digest article about bridges collapsing when I was 10. I would close my eyes and pray whenever we did cross in our family's red, 1963 Chevy Impala station wagon. I eventually got over that fear, and have crossed that bridge more often than any other. 

I still have frequent, recurring dreams that I have to walk across it to get home, but the bridge is slowly sinking into the water as I hold onto the handrail and just keep walking, because what else can I do?

So this surreal photo works for me on a dream archetype level, and, I thought, suitable for Sliders Sunday. 

Happy Sliders Sunday!

Taken in: United States / New York / Beechhurst (show map)

Taken on: June 9, 2020

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Camera: Fujifilm X-T4, f/8.0, 1.6 sec, 46.6mm (=70mm), ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T4
Lens:	16.0-80.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	1.6
Focal Length:	46.6mm (35mm equivalent: 70mm)
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	+0.67 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Digital Camera X-T4 Ver1.00
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